Harold the King by Helen Hollick
Paperback: 704 pages
Publisher: BookForce UK Ltd; 2nd edition (February 6, 2007)
Average Customer Review on Amazon: 5 stars (8 reviews)
Product Description:
This story is set in the England of 1044. As dawn breaks over a summer’s landscape, Harold Godwinesson is riding east. One of seven sons of the noble Godwime family, he […]
Filed under: Norman Conquest, Middle Ages History, Medieval History, Historical Fiction on October 7th, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I’m currently in the process of typing out and editing a new short story. It’s another medieval historical fiction piece set in medieval England. It centers around a cathedral and the theft of a golden cross and the defacing of a saint’s effigy … and murder. After I finish typing and revising, I’ll submit it […]
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On this date, October 6th, in medieval history:
877 - Death of Charles “the Bald,” king of the West Frankish Kingdom
891 - Formosus elected as Pope
1101 - Death of St. Bruno, confessor, ecclesiastical writer, and founder of the Carthusian Order
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The Lions of al-Rassan by Guy Gavriel Kay
Paperback: 528 pages
Publisher: Eos (June 2005)
Average Customer Review on Amazon: 4.5 stars (108 Reviews)
Editorial Review from Publishers Weekly:
Canadian attorney Kay has eschewed the courtroom thriller for fantasy (A Song for Arbonne, etc.). Here he draws on the crumbling empire of medieval Spain to inspire this tale of brutality […]
Filed under: Historical Fantasy, Middle Ages History, Medieval History, Historical Fiction, Fiction on October 6th, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Chancel
[chan-suhl, chahn-]
Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Late Latin cancellus lattice, from Latin cancelli; from the latticework enclosing it
Chancel: The eastern end of a church
Choir (Quire)
(kwir)
Etymology: Middle English quer, from Anglo-French queor, from Medieval Latin chorus, from Latin, chorus
Choir: The area of the church between a transept and main apse. It is the area where […]
Filed under: Middle Ages History, Medieval Glossary, Medieval History on October 3rd, 2008 | No Comments »
The Crusades Encyclopedia has a nice collection of medieval primary source texts dating back to the time of the Crusades. Such texts include letters and manuscripts, such as: letter of Alexius I Comnenus, the Siege of Tyre according to Ibn Al Qalanisi, the Franks’ capture of Antioch, the Franks’ conquest Jerusalem, and Pope Urban II’s […]
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On this date, October 1st, in medieval history:
1207 - Birth of Henry III, King of England
1273 - Rudolf of Hapsburg crowned Holy Roman Emperor
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